Repeats Quotes - Page 34

• I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.

  Sara Zarr

  Memories, Air, Want

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• You deserve to die," I whisper, suddenly realizing Iv'e said the words aloud. "Excuse me?" "Nothing." "Not nothing. You just told me that I deserve to be maggot feed." "Not maggot feed, just-" "Dead!" "Forget it" "I don't know why I said that. Just daydreaming, I guess." "Daydreaming about my death?" "Forget it", I repeat. "Are you sure you aren't still mad that I wouldn't let you borrow my vintage fishnet leggings?" "More like I didn't want to borrow them.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Vintage, Mad, Want

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• All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

  Seth Godin

  Doe, Way, Computer

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.11, Penguin

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• Trash can!” Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I’d eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn’t actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

  Karen Chance

  Fun, Beer, Night

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.241, Penguin

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• So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

  Sarah Dessen

  Events, Watches, Repeating History

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.132, Penguin

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• Patterns repeat themselves in history

  Rick Riordan

  Patterns

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• We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Mean, Shining

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.248, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Gossip, Gathering, Information

  Mercedes Lackey (2010). “Intrigues: Book Two of the Collegium Chronicles (A Valdemar Novel)”, p.158, Penguin

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• It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

  Steve Berry

  Past, Way, Remember

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1245, Ballantine Books

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• Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Past, Hands, House

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.85, Atlântico Press

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• In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.

  Paulo Coelho

  Suicide, Lying, Heart

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• She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Mean, Knowing

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared." This was the reward for living in the Netherlands. As a child you get to hear this story, and as an adult you get to turn around and repeat it.

  David Sedaris

  Children, Men, Eight

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• Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Say Anything, I Can

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• I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Philosophy, Bores You, People

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• The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Past, Mind Love

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• We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Men, Emotional

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• Write. Publish. Repeat.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Writing, Publish

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• I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.

  Vera Nazarian

  Memories, Two, Stories

  Vera Nazarian (2002). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.193, Wildside Press LLC

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• I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.

  Harlan Coben

  People, Soul, Live In The Moment

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• Jack didn’t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn’t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesus’ necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldn’t stop laughing and had to sit down.

  Ilona Andrews

  Jesus, Nice, Long Ago

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• Just because some of us make a mistake in love once doesn't mean we're doomed to repeat it.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mistake, Mean, Doomed

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• There's something wrong with the brakes." He didn't recognize his shaky, weak voice. He pumped them again. Nothing.  "There's something wrong with the BRAKES?" "I don't think we have any." "We don't have any BRAKES?" "Bro, it doesn't help to repeat everything I say!" Jonah yelled.

  Judy Blundell

  Thinking, Voice, Helping

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• For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Cutting, Loss

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.

  Nicole Krauss

  Feelings, Needs, Gestures

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